The work
Projects that shaped precincts
A selection of major developments delivered by Landvault's principals across Australia and the United States. Hover to explore.
Most landowners sell once — and only discover what their site was truly worth when they drive past it a few years later. We exist so that moment of clarity comes before the sale, not after.
When land is positioned correctly — with a credible planning pathway, a financial model showing the project's viability, and the right institutional audience — the price a developer will pay is materially higher than what today's open market offers. The developer captures that spread. The landowner receives the agreed sale price — and often discovers the full picture only years later, when they drive past the finished building.
That spread is development equity. It is real, it is quantifiable, and for the first time — it doesn't have to belong to someone else.
The first step is knowing how much you're sitting on.
→ Find out in a single conversationHere is how the property industry is structured: the agent earns their commission when the deal happens — not when you get full value. The developer needs to buy cheap to make the project viable. The consultant charges whether you win or lose. Every professional in the room has built their model on the assumption that landowners don't know what their land could become. We think that's extraordinary. And we built Landvault to correct it.
We're not agents. We're not developers buying your land cheaply. We sit on your side of the table — using the same institutional expertise that built billion-dollar precincts, now entirely in service of maximising what you walk away with.
Imagine sitting down a year from now knowing you captured that upside — that you didn't leave it on the table. That's the conversation we start.
We reveal what your land is genuinely capable of — zoning uplift, development yield, highest-and-best-use — with the rigour of institutional feasibility analysis.
We produce the masterplan, financial model, and planning strategy that transforms your site from raw land into a fully packaged, buyer-ready development opportunity.
We take your packaged opportunity to institutional developers, private equity, and capital partners who pay a premium for de-risked, approval-ready sites.
Our success is measured entirely by yours. We share in a portion of the value growth we create — meaning our incentive is always to maximise your outcome, not minimise it.
In a single confidential conversation, we give you an expert read on what your land is genuinely capable of — free of agents' incentives, free of charge. You'll leave with a clear picture of your site's potential that most landowners never get. No obligation. Just clarity.
Free & fully confidentialWe invest our own time, expertise, and resources to develop the financial model, planning pathway, and masterplan that transforms your site into something institutional buyers compete for.
At our cost, not yoursUsing our deep network of developers, institutions, and capital partners, we generate genuine competitive interest in your site — the kind of interest that moves the price well beyond what the market would naturally offer.
Our network, your advantageYou settle at a significantly enhanced price. We share in a small portion of the value growth we created together — our reward comes entirely from what we add, never from what you already had.
Shared success, no surprisesA landowner in Sydney's inner suburbs held a 2,200 sqm site that had been in the family for over 20 years. An agent had found a buyer at $4.8 million — a fair market price. Before contracts were exchanged, the landowner reached out to us.
The site had been assessed on current zoning only. Under the relevant planning framework, a credible pathway existed to a higher-density outcome — approximately 45 apartments. We ran the feasibility, built the planning case, and structured the opportunity for an institutional audience.
We ran a targeted process with institutional developers. The site settled for $8.6 million — $3.8 million above the market offer, from land the family had owned for two decades. Our success fee came entirely from the growth above the original price. The landowner paid nothing unless we delivered.
This example is illustrative of a typical engagement. Details have been altered. Actual outcomes vary by site and market conditions.
Projects represent Landvault's principals' combined experience across development management, feasibility advisory, and commercial negotiations in prior institutional and advisory roles. All projects comply with applicable confidentiality obligations.
A selection of major developments delivered by Landvault's principals across Australia and the United States. Hover to explore.
For decades, Landvault's founders sat inside the development industry — running the feasibility models that turned ordinary land into premium developments. Transaction after transaction, they watched landowners accept market value while developers captured everything above it. At a certain point, the question became impossible to ignore: why doesn't the landowner have access to this same process? The answer was: they never had anyone to build it for them. Landvault was founded to be that firm.
Linh brings over 20 years of experience across architecture, property development, and investment — with a career spanning Australia and the United States on projects totalling more than $2 billion in value.
Her background as a registered architect gives her a precise eye for land value and design feasibility. Her financial modelling and commercial negotiation experience — including State Significant Development Approvals and joint ventures with clubs, universities, and institutional partners — means she can take a site from raw concept to buyer-ready opportunity faster than most. She has lifted project IRRs by over 50% during periods of significant cost escalation and originated development opportunities for landowners who had no idea what their land could become.
Vanessa brings over 20 years across architecture, institutional property fund management, and development consulting — a combination that gives Landvault an unusually broad lens across design, capital, and delivery.
She spent a decade as Property Development Manager at AMP Capital — one of Australia's largest institutional real estate platforms — managing complex developments and building deep relationships across the institutional investor landscape. She later worked as a Property Development Consultant at UNSW, bringing that expertise to an advisory and research context.
Her training at Johnson Pilton Walker — known for landmark civic and cultural projects — gives her an understanding of built form and land value that few in finance possess.
The property world has agents who sell what your land is worth today. It has developers who buy it cheap and profit from what it could become. And it has consultants who charge fees whether or not you win.
None of them sit entirely on your side. We do. We're a new kind of partner — one who brings institutional-grade development capability directly to landowners, with a compensation model that means we only succeed when you do.
Think about what it means to have the team that delivered $2 billion in major precincts now working entirely in your corner — at no upfront cost, with no adversarial terms, and with every incentive to make your outcome as large as possible.
"The right knowledge at the right moment changes everything. Most landowners never get that moment. We give it to them."
Our fee is a share of the development equity we unlock above and beyond what an agent could achieve. If we don't move your outcome materially above market, we earn nothing. That's not a contract clause — it's the whole model.
We put our own time, expertise, and resources into building your opportunity before you spend a dollar. That means we only engage where we have genuine conviction. And it means our interests are aligned with yours from the first conversation.
The financial modelling, planning strategy, and buyer access that developers use to capture development equity — we now deploy on behalf of the landowner. You deal directly with Linh and Vanessa. Not a junior analyst. The principals.
We run a structured process that creates competitive tension among developers, institutions, and capital partners. They pay more because we give them a packaged, de-risked, approval-ready opportunity. That premium — the difference between a rushed transaction and a competed one — is development equity. And it flows to you.
Landowners who've had this conversation describe it as the most valuable hour they spent on their property journey. It costs nothing. It changes how you see everything. And you stay in complete control of what happens next.